Wheely bad idea! Motorist tries to drive away despite his car being CLAMPED outside luxury hotel

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This is the moment a defiant driver tried to ignore the huge yellow clamp attached to his car and drive away from a luxury London hotel.

The unnamed driver pull away from the Sheraton Park Tower but only got a few feet before the triangular impediment started to tear his vehicle apart.

Bystanders laughed as he reserved back into place, then tried to drive off again, with the clamp grinding the wheel arches of his Toyota Prius.

Clamped: A driver outside the luxury Sheraton Park Tower hotel in Knightsbridge was filmed trying to drive off with a clamp on his car

Telling off: The driver, pictured above standing outside the vehicle, drove back and forward several times before realising he couldn't go anywhere

Eventually a bystander comes to the window to make sure he knows why he is having little luck driving away.

After realising his predicament, the man gets out of his car and walks away.

It is not clear who clamped the vehicle, though a Sheraton spokesman told MailOnline it wasn't the hotel.

Making a break for it: The man tried to steer his car out of trouble (left) - before giving up and walking away (right)

Parking: The car was outside the Sheraton Park Tower hotel in Knightsbridge, central London